The Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. military alliance in Eastern Europe
  2. 5. recovery program which would give European nations American aid to rebuild their post WWII economies
  3. 8. capital of Germany that is divided into 4 parts after WWII
  4. 12. U-2 pilot shot down while flying a covert mission over the Soviet Union
  5. 13. radioactive particles dispersed by a nuclear explosion
  6. 16. Famous quote by Winston Churchill where he describes the division between eastern and western Europe
  7. 18. practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force and opponent to back down.
Down
  1. 1. formed in 1938 to investigate subversive activities in the U.S.
  2. 2. $400 million in aid for Turkey and Greece to fight communist aggression.
  3. 4. meeting between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin with origins of the Cold War
  4. 6. first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union
  5. 7. nations politically and economically dominated by another more powerful country.
  6. 9. system where the collective good is prioritized over individual rights
  7. 10. the policy of preventing the expansion of communism and keeping it to current boundaries
  8. 11. became known for the search of communist sympathizers in the U.S.
  9. 14. the division of the Korean Peninsula
  10. 15. Egypt's desire to control this area caused a crisis in the Middle East
  11. 17. a mutual defense alliance that initially included 12 countries